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It's amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that's better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.
This is a great time for Linux users! :)
Plasma 6, but just as excited for kernel 6.7 featuring:
Nothing. 6.6.6 was already released.
Scary number
Plasma 6 for sure. I'm a Gnome user waiting with bated breath to see if it actually delivers the goods.
Always hoping for Nvidia to stop being bullshit. Definitely not buying from them again.
What Plasma 6 feature has you most excited?
None in particular. Just the totality of the changes. Many of them are small default changes or usability changes, but when taken together it sounds like a nice, somewhat overdue bundle.
Probably true convergence between mobile and desktop, where your linux phone is powerful enough to be your only computing device. You would only need something like a lapdock (basically a laptop without the guts) and instead of a cable connecting the two, a slot maybe somewhere within the keyboard that your phone slips into. Maybe this exists already, I don't know.
Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101
That whole line of products was before it's time, I really wanted one of the phone/tablet combos, but man were they expensive.
It's a cool idea and there are similar devices, but they never seem to catch on because most people would rather carry a laptop that's still useful if something happens to their phone
I'm looking forward to Plasma 6
BSODs
That's already here with systemd 255 which released recently.
That's the joke
Work in Cinnamon on Wayland, Plasma 6, XFCE 4.20 for Wayland support, WINE on Wayland, The Fancy Hyprland-like effects coming to Qtile Wayland, basically everything Wayland.
Better ARM and RISC-V support
HDR playback
bcachefs in mainline. It's going to be fun.
I am waiting for dynamic buffering and variabile refresh rate being both merged in mutter. Wine on Wayland is also pretty exciting.
Probably COSMIC. I'm also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.
I want Proton to evolve to the point where my CAD/CAM software works flawlessly.
I'm trying to adapt to FreeCAD, but I have so much muscle memory invested in Rhino that it feels like being a beginner again.
wine Wayland driver
Not much. Plasma 6 and any wayland improvements I guess. Apart from that maybe FSR 3 frame generation, but that's not linux specific.
native wine under wayland ! :D
As a GNOME user:
A lot of development is ongoing in GNOME thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund. I’m curious what that will bring.
Also hoping that the proposed tiling functionality will be implemented.
Fully Mature Wayland implementation in Gnome.
It isnt?
Linux will eventually make it seriously to the desktop in the next few years, possibly going as high as 15%-20% of the userbase (in my country Greece it's already at 9%). But only because MS is going to destroy its Windows base by making it subscription etc.
I'm hoping for COSMIC to come out. It looks so promising and the fact that they implemented the panels using wlr-layer-shell is so great. I think more desktop environments should do this for interoperability
Finally, KDE is going back to having some nice bling after slowly removing it for years.
If now they can make kwin stable, I'd be so happy
Now that they're working on it, I'm interested in seeing how well Wayland in Cinnamon works. Hopefully it can fix some tearing and stuttering issues in my mixed refresh rate multimonitor setup.
Will also be interesting to see how the landscape with Windows goes, especially considering I'm picking up traces of discontent in their ranks. I think Valve's actions will probably cause them to sit up and pay attention.
Definitely COSMIC DE, can't wait to check out all the cool stuff they've been doing!
I am waiting for Plasma 6 too. Maybe it will ship with Fedora 40 🤔
I hope so
And I am looking forward to Ubuntu server 24.04
zfs raidz expansion
What Plasma 6 feature are you waiting for?
For me:
I'm still pretty new to Linux so I'm finding new stuff all the time, I've been very happy with EndeavourOS but I am planning to switch to vanilla Arch when Plasma 6 fully drops. There are other distros that have caught my attention, they're just abit beyond my skill level currently.
Only thing I'm really hoping for is improvements to Nvidia (Yes I will buy AMD next time I get the chance, I built this PC before I had any intention of using Linux)
I'm looking forward to hardware and firmware hacking on a Framework laptop.
Nothing much really. MGLRU was finally added this year to fix long-standing kernel OOM issues. Maybe some TPM stuff in systemd from Lennart. Maybe the pace of immutables will increase but who knows. Despite the occasional regressions am pretty happy with Linux.
Better mainline support for RK3588 SoC
Bcachefs, love COW files. I wish all file systems had it even if it naively copied the whole file on first write. Sort of a write safe hard link.
Kde plasma 6
I hope Valve will make the Index VR work again after breaking it with the 2.x updates in October :')
Moving beyond linux mint to other distros so I can learn more and have a more customizable linux experience.
I got fed up with windows 10, and then windows 11 pushed me away from ever wanting to use windows again.
Linux mint has been fun but its a bit too barebones when it comes to customization ( though that's one of its strengths since its so easy and straightforward for a longtime windows user to move over to linux)
Also I've had a bunch of trouble with Nvidia drivers and playing new games in 2023, so I'll probably buy/build a new linux desktop in late 2024 on AMD CPU/GPU.